All about building entrances to the home. Detailed charts for identification of parts and joints, steps for constructing and hanging, exercises for perfecting building skills, and dozens of designs.
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The Bridgewaters have written and illustrated more than 40 books on woodworking and crafts, including Building Doors and Gates, How to Use and Care for Woodworking Tools, and Boxes and Chests.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Agree with Arizona,
This review is from: Building Doors & Gates: Instructions, Techniques, and Over 100 Designs (Paperback)
This book starts with a primitive door specification and adds features to end up with some pretty impressive designs. Agreed it is not a "step by step" book that holds your hand through each part of the process. Through simple line drawings the book shows the joinery required for about 100 different doors and gates. The book does not show you how to build a good joint, look to a basic carpentry book for that information. The book also doesn't give an ordered to-do list for the various designs. But if you have basic carpentry skills you will look at the drawings and say "Ah, that's how it works," and then you will build the door you need.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Gotta disagree, it's a good book,
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This review is from: Building Doors & Gates: Instructions, Techniques, and Over 100 Designs (Paperback)
After reading the previous customer review, I balked on buying this book. I checked it out at the library though, and after reading it, I'm definitely going to buy it. For a pretty competent carpenter/woodworker, the designs are easy to copy, and it does give a fairly good rundown on the joinery needed to build a solid door or gate. If you don't have a lot of carpentry confidence and you need someone to fill in all the blanks, though, it may not be for you.
24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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HOW TO BUILD A DOOR?,
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This review is from: Building Doors & Gates: Instructions, Techniques, and Over 100 Designs (Paperback)
As a builder and craftsman, this book doesn't really help. It covers some history and tools in the construction of doors but doesn't help with the construction techniques or tools you might need to build a better modern door. I wouldn't have bought this book if I had been able to look at first.
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Of all architectural woodwork, door making is one of the most taken for granted, one of the most necessary, and one of the most complicated forms of construction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
holection molding, slam stile, harr end, ledged door, tenoned into the stiles, slamming post, traditional framed, basic framed, curved stile, paneled construction, plough plane, head stile, frieze rail, framed gate, hanging stile, single tenons, lock rail, mortise gauge, bolection moldings, stub tenons, hinge stile, mortise chisel, two stiles, braced doors, underside edge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Door Designs, Gate Designs, Generic Gate Types, Art Deco, Five-Bar Sussex Field Gate, Framed Oak Garden Gate, Pennsylvania German New!
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Of all architectural woodwork, door making is one of the most taken for granted, one of the most necessary, and one of the most complicated forms of construction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
holection molding, slam stile, harr end, ledged door, tenoned into the stiles, slamming post, traditional framed, basic framed, curved stile, paneled construction, plough plane, head stile, frieze rail, framed gate, hanging stile, single tenons, lock rail, mortise gauge, bolection moldings, stub tenons, hinge stile, mortise chisel, two stiles, braced doors, underside edge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Door Designs, Gate Designs, Generic Gate Types, Art Deco, Five-Bar Sussex Field Gate, Framed Oak Garden Gate, Pennsylvania German New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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